Talia Thomas, daughter of Vickie Palite, of Augusta, has received a certificate of appreciation at Fort Valley (Ga.) State University for volunteering as part of the food demonstration team at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Ga.

Carrie Adamson, a leader and volunteer of the Augusta Genealogical Society, recently was honored by the Georgia Humanities Council with a 2005 Governor's Award for her work in telling the American story through the care and organization of family history, maps and local archives.

Language awards

The following high school students have been recognized for their academic achievements in foreign language at the annual Foreign Language Alliance for International Rapport Honor Society Induction Ceremony at Augusta State University:

Elizabeth Emanuelli, a foreign languages teacher at Lake Forest Hills Elementary School, was named the 2005 FLAIR Teacher of the Year.

Officer honored

A command conference room at Robins Air Force Base near Macon, Ga., has been named for Lt. Col. Edward Stephen Mitchell III, a North Augusta High School graduate who died in 2003 at the age of 48 of a heart attack.

Lt. Col. Mitchell joined the Air Force in 1977 (he was sworn into service by his father, Air Force Maj. Edward S. Mitchell) and served at bases in Montana, Illinois, Oklahoma and Alaska before being assigned to the Air Logistics Center at Robins in June of 1993, working with manpower-related issues. In August 1998, he became chief of the Management Engineering Branch for the Air Force Reserve Command at Robins.

Lt. Col. Mitchell was buried in North Augusta's Pineview Memorial Gardens with military honors.

Gets Merit Award

Jamie Howard, a graduate of A.R. Johnson Health, Science and Engineering High School and daughter of James and Robin Howard, of Augusta, has received a $250 Merit Award from the J. Whitney Bunting School of Business at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville.